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| boxcolor = ed1c24 | hexadecimal = ed1c24 | text color = FFFFFF }} Hawaii ( or ; ), is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is the largest and the southeastern-most of the Hawaiian islands, a chain of volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. With an area of , it is larger than all of the other islands in the archipelago combined and is the largest island in the United States. The island of Hawaii is the third largest island in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand. The island is often referred to as the Island of Hawaii,〔According to the Geographic Names Information System, Island of Hawaii is the preferred name, see .〕 the Big Island, or Hawaii Island to distinguish between the island and the state. It is coterminous with Hawaii County and includes the Hilo Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census the population was 185,079.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/15/15001.html )〕 The county seat and largest city is Hilo. There are no incorporated cities in Hawaii County (see Hawaii Counties). ==History== (詳細はHawaiʻiloa, the legendary Polynesian navigator who first discovered it. Other accounts attribute the name to the legendary realm of Hawaiki, a place from which the Polynesian people are said to have originated (see also Manua), the place where they go in the afterlife, the realm of the gods and goddesses. The name is cognate with Savaii, the name of the largest island of Samoa. Captain James Cook, the English explorer and navigator who was the captain of the first European expedition that discovered the Hawaiian Islands, called them the "Sandwich Islands" after his patron, the Earl of Sandwich. Cook was killed on the Big Island at Kealakekua Bay on February 14, 1779, in a mêlée which followed the theft of a ship's boat. Hawaii was the home island of Paiea Kamehameha, later known as Kamehameha the Great. Kamehameha united most of the Hawaiian islands under his rule in 1795, after several years of war, and gave the kingdom and the island chain the name of his native island. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hawaii (island)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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